Word: weightfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president of Massachusetts' Springfield College, the black-bound volumes contain scouting reports on some 1,500 possibilities for the Government's top 300 jobs. It remained to be seen how far Nixon will bow to political considerations in his appointments, but Olds deliberately gave that factor little weight...
...thinkers, it deals with the question of which is preferable: the specialist with expertise in one field, or the generalist, with broader, if shallower, wisdom. In an age where much rests on the judgment of public men, the question is of considerable interest. As it happens, most of the weight is on the generalist's side...
...have been carefully printed to reduce the yellow cast of ancient varnish that customarily obscures Rembrandt's backgrounds. The result, though it sometimes gives the impression that the paintings have just been overzealously cleaned and scraped, offers a rare chance to linger over details normally lost in murk. Weight: 10½ pounds...
Crim played for the freshmen at fullback, but he felt that he had to put on weight to play for the varsity. During the summer he trained, lifting weights, and that proved disastrous in his sophomore year...
This year he prepared differently and just did running without worrying about his weight. At the first of the season he was behind the others in experience, but by the time he replaced O'Connell, he had made up the difference...